The Truce of Twilight

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Enjoy it while it lasts because soon it will be different Pernicious playgrounds and new age cultism Outbreaks of optimism in care homes of England The famous goodwill dumped in your fly tips so... [Chorus] Go raise your idols Pull them out the marshes Go give them sanctuary And put them in your new builds Because everything is now a live stream And the noise is rising Curtain twitchers can take out their sunscreen [Post-Chorus] It looks like it's come to rest [Verse 2] The truce of twilight the echoes of the horned ooser In a Southend caravan park from shore to pierhead The twelve that follow on they are camping on the cliff top They not dreaming just looking to midnight [Chorus] Go fill your pockets now With tomorrow's landfill The Lions and Unicorns Are sleeping out in shop doors Outside dreamland Glassy eyed demography The smell of cut grass The swallows are returning [Post-Chorus] And it look's like they've come to rest [Verse 3] Bring me my shell box and my submachine gun Because you can't get over anything quite like this Where the water is darker than the mirror of the sky And Demis Roussos playing "Forever" on the waterslide [Outro] Conscripted into ranks Look what we have done The feckless and the lazy Look what we've become Chicken collector man, hey Look what we have done The fortune teller she sits with the starlings Look what we've become Oh the mass elopers turn to exhale Look what we have done In the dance schools of England, hey Look what we've become In the dance schools of England Look what we have done In the dance schools of England